ADJECTIVE
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providing protective supervision; watching over or safeguarding
tutelary gods
a guardian angel
daycare that is educational and not just custodial
How To Use tutelar In A Sentence
- These neurologics were a crystalline latticework of proteins, the living circuitry of the cell's tutelary computer. THE BROKEN GOD
- The priests of one settlement have their own special deities to whom they and their relatives have recourse, while the priests of another settlement have another set of deities for their tutelaries, with whom they intercede, either for themselves or for such of their friends as may need assistance. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
- A dusk of midges danced above but their features were set like grim tutelaries. At Swim, Two Boys
- Those which they call their tutelar deities shall be no protection to them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
- These neurologics were a crystalline latticework of proteins, the living circuitry of the cell's tutelary computer. THE BROKEN GOD
- Of these Protectors there are two classes, which are not mutually exclusive, namely, the tutelary deities of individuals, and the defenders of the faith or tutelaries of the whole Church. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3
- Again, he faced the tutelary computer, letting the stream of his turbulent, half-formed thoughts flow freely. THE BROKEN GOD
- Instead of hecatombs of fat oxen sacrificed by the tribes of a wealthy city to their tutelar deity the emperor complains that he found only a single goose, provided at the expense of a priest, the pale and solitary in habitant of this decayed temple. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- But the colonial anthropologist came to be in something of a tutelary relationship with a younger scholar from England.
- But who were the proprietaries of these bones, or what bodies these ashes made up, were a question above antiquarism; not to be resolved by man, nor easily perhaps by spirits, except we consult the provincial guardians, or tutelary observators. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial